Jakob Kellenberger: Prioritizing After Natural Disasters
IISS - International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
The quality of the security environment is much affected by the nature of the regional security architecture. If Asia is not quite yet a unified security community, it is certainly a vibrant security market-place.Security here is regularly being bought, rented, leveraged, reinsured merged and acquired through a dizzying array of strategic partnerships, ad hoc co-operative relationships and formal defence alliances, some reflected, others less so, in existing institutional structures.The Shangri-La Dialogue has a very special place within the present architecture in helping to inter-mediate these distinct and emerging defence relationships as it includes the national security establishments of all the key states - International Institute for Strategic Studies